Burt Reynolds Hall. The former football dorm for FSUis one of the many apartment- and condo-complexes on Hayden Road, believed to be named for a Florida State College for Women professor and his wife.

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Hayden Road, an apartment- and condo-filled street overlooking Florida State University's Doak Campbell Stadium, is believed to commemorate a long-ago professor and his wife.

Edwin Andrew Hayden was a popular professor of philosophy and psychology at Florida State College for Women from 1915 until his self-inflicted death in 1921 at age 51. Hayden dazzled students with his psychology experiments, but suffered bouts of depression and had a nervous breakdown shortly before his death. After his death, Hayden's wife, Clara, was hired as FSCW's chief library assistant, a ...